July - September 1933

July 7, 1933 page 1 Famous Theologian Ousted Berlin. — The Prussian Commissioner of Protestant Churches, Aug. Jäger, has permanently removed the world famous theologian, General Superintendent Otto Dibelius, from office. Additionally Jäger has appointed subcommissioners for all Prussian church districts and ordered them to organize the corporate bodies so that a national German evangelical church will be created. The Commissioner explained this step as follows: "[It was done] to prevent chaos. Our thanks to God and his agent, Adolf Hitler. Only the existence of the state makes the existence of the church possible."

July 7, 1933 page 2 News from the Largest American Goethe Collection _____ Among the costliest possessions of the library at the American Yale University is the Goethe Collection, which was assembled by the late William A. Speck. Last year during the centennial commemoration of Goethe's death, Yale University published its edition of the seventh and final volume of facsimiles reproductions from the collection, thus bringing the project, started in 1915, to a close. However a scholarly and complete catalog of the collection is still lacking. A preliminary installment is planned in the form of a smaller catalog containing the most important subjects in detailed description. A clear indicator of the precious nature of this collection is presented in this magnificent work titled Goetheana; a centenary portfolio of forty-three facsimiles & reproductions of unique or rare items from the William A. Speck collection. Five hundred copies were published. In the true-to-nature reproduction of the individual specimens, in which the Berlin establishment of Albert Frisch participated, the greatest possible precision was achieved. In the manuscripts and letters one sees each fold, each tear, the tiniest blemish contained in the original. One can see variations in ink and paper. The significance of the imaged letters, manuscripts, title pages, etchings, drawings, sheet music, silhouettes, medals, etc. will be presented in the introduction by the curator of the Speck Collection, Prof. Carl Schreiber. Much is revealed especially on the influence which Goethe had on the English-speaking world. Eight pieces relate directly to Faust. Thus Schreiber himself characterizes the content. "Goethe's own appearance is featured vividly through likenesses in individual portraits, silhouettes, busts, medals and drawings from the Italian Journey right up to his death. Goethe's manuscripts span more than half a century. May they serve as beacons, casting their rays forward and backward to illuminate the broad spectrum of the Goethe world. The series begins with a letter in which the intense excitement of Werther's era still vibrates. It closes with a poem, which expresses Goethe's unwavering hope for the approach towards a world literature as he and Carlyle dreamt of it and which would encompass the people of the world in a common bond. Between the poles of youthful Titanism and the heroic calm of old age we get an insight into Goethe's life as a husband, a friendly host, a theater director, etc. Goethe the poet appears in multiple personnae." Many documents display the influence of the Olympian on England, such as Carlyle's letter to Eckermann, the remarks of Henry Crabb Robinson in a letter to Knebel, the copy of Faust with an inscription by Byron, and three unique Werther pieces. The American roots for the justification of the collection include a self portrait by Longfellow reading from Goethe's works, the first draft of the poem "To Goethe" by Bayard Taylor, et. al. Concerning the universality of Goethe's creations we have, among other things, Schopenhauer's letter to Eastlake on Goethe's studies as a patron of the natural sciences, and in closing, a drawing of the Ilmenau mine, to which Goethe dedicated so much work and effort. _____ A Friendly Suggestion. "Mr. Editor, Yesterday you published an announcement of my death. Please print a retraction." "A retraction would harm the subscribers' trust in the newspaper. Wouldn't it suffice to print a new birth announcement free of charge?" _____ [Translator's Note: the catalog record for this collection is available at https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=9448389 The catalog record for the facsimile and reproduction volume is available at https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=22239&recCount=25&recPointer=2&bibId=8756502]

July 7, 1933 page 3 The "Bachelorettes" have gotten better _____ One of the boldest critics of the past year, the well-known author Victor Margueritte, stated today in a Parisian newspaper that he has observed an amazing change in the female character over the past decade. Ten years ago he published his novel, The Bachelor Girl [La Garçonne], in which he created a somber picture of the licentiousness and depravity of young French women. The narrative created a disagreeable sensation. Margueritte was cast out of the Legion of Honor; his book was banned in various countries, including Germany. Now the novelist paints the picture of the young woman of today, the direct opposite to the Bachelor Girl back then. The unmarried woman of today, in his opinion, has discovered a firm point of view in life, has become a useful member of society, has found work in all fields of employment, and has distinguished herself by her solidarity and competence. Margueritte emphasizes that his opinion of ten years earlier has not changed. Instead, women seem to have changed much more favorably.

July 7, 1933 page 4 A Dangerous Weapon _____ The Jewish War Veterans of the United States have produced a stamp with the inscription "For Humanitarian Reasons do not buy German Goods." The Post Office has refused to forward mail bearing these stamps. Samuel Untermeyer, the well-known Jewish lawyer in New York, has vehemently protested against the Postal authorities for their decison. He's now on his way to London in order to take part in an international boycott rally in Germany on July 17th. The Jewish War Veterans of the United States have turned to the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Veterans of the Spanish-American War with a request to support them in their resolution "against the current German government's violation of the stipulations for protection of all minority populations." Thus it is clearly and meaninfully brought to light that responsible Jewish organizations are fully empowered to perform their work. When in the course of time a schism is apparent within the country, these organizations have the responsibility to act. So little is agreed upon regarding the steps taken by the Hitler regime against the Jewish population in Germany or at least so little is acknowledged that one closes onself off to the issues developing in Germany, that they are not exclusively antisemitic religious issues. Measures taken against the Protestant Churchs, the decision of the Vatican to withdraw from the Central Party in Germany, clearly prove that the Hitler government in no way intends to make Germany's Jewish population the only victim. Protestants and Catholics have just as much right to complain about the Hitler government as the Jews. As far as religion is concerned, the measures taken by the German government are significantly more encompassing than just against the Jews. It might be a worldwide catastrophe if Protestants and Catholics were to follow the example of the Jews and request a boycott against German goods.

July 7, 1933 page 4 Schempp Comes to Fly Martin Schempp, earlier a Syracuse resident who learned to fly in the mountainous region of Stuttgart, Germany, will arrive in Syracuse on Saturday or Sunday to see old friends and prepare for a race in a motorless aircraft this Tuesday in Elmira. During this encounter, which will last 13 days, Schempp will attempt to fly a longer distance in a motorless aircraft than has every been done before. He will use a new sort of glider known as a "seagull wing," which has a wingspan of 60 ft. Last year a duplicate of this aircraft won the race in Germany. With Schempp comes W. Hawley Bowlus, glider manufacturer, who taught Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh to fly in a motorless aircraft. Schempp and Bowlus built their aircraft in San Fernando, California. _____ [Translator's Note: Martin Schempp didn't win the contest. In an article published in the Middletown Times Herold he had to land when his towline was cut. Schempp also co-authored a report on the first "Elmira Soaring Contest, 1930"] _____ A Book on the Germans _____ Lieutenant-Colonel E. Alexander Powell, writer, traveller, and former resident of Syracuse, who spent last week in Skaneateles, is going to Germany in a few days to engage with the German populace and write a book on them. He says that up til now no one has tried "To tell the German people's side of the story." He will meet with Hitler, Hindenburg, the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, etc., but his main goal is to write a book on the German masses, not on the Nazis. We are convinced that Mr. Powell will write a book in which the German people can be proud.

July 7, 1933 page 7 A Fine Hotel "Tell me, Mr. Concierge. You have a funny hotel here. All night long, every half an hour, someone knocked at our door, but when I asked, 'who's there?' nobody answered." "Oh, you needn't worry about that, Mr. Director. That was our business manager. He does that to all our guests who have large unpaid balances. He's happy when he's assured you're still here!"

July 7, 1933 page 8 Not All Churchmen Intimidated _____ Berlin, June 30th. — Fifteen General Superintendents of Protestant Churches have declined to withdraw the letter in which on Monday they protested the appointment of Dr. August Jäger as Church Commissioner and another Nazi, Joseph Hossenfelder as Vice-President and the Superior Church Council. Dr. Jäger called the superintendents together and asked them individually whether they would stand by their letter. Churchman after churchman responded "Yes," whereupon Dr. Jäger gruffly dismissed them saying, "You will hear from me again." Before the appointment of Dr. Jäger and that of Dr. Müller as Head of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, the Nazis said that a popular vote had to precede the election of Dr. von Bodelschwingh. Now they're saying tha the Church reorganization will come from the top on down. Military District Pastor Dr. Müller, the new head of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, fired the managing director of the Superior Church Council, Pastor Adalbert Hosemann and appointed Admiral Meusel to take his place. Dr. Jäger relieved the General Superintendent of Berlin in the Church District of Brandenburg, Dr. Emil Karow, from his post. Berlin, June 30th. — President von Hindenburg related in a letter to Hitler that before God and his conscience he hold himself responsible for avoiding trouble and that he is convinced that Hitler's statesmanship will again bring peace within the Church and between the Church and the government. Hitler immediately responded to Hindenburg's request and commissioned Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior, to act as mediator.

July 14, 1933 page 1 Refugee Colony for German Jews _____ New York, N.Y. — At a public reception hosted by the local Zionist organization, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the Zionist World League, recommended that work be done to enlist the help of England, the United States and the League of Nations in establishing Palastine as a refugee colony for the 250,000 German and other Jews. $25,000,000 would be needed for this task, which could be either procured as a sponsored loan through the League of Nations or as a bond offered to the Jews throughout the world and endorsed by a responsible Jewish collaborative. Samuel Untermeyer, chairman of the reception committee, declared that the situation of Jews in the Reich is hopeless if either the boycott is unsuccessful or the League of Nations does not intervene.

July 14, 1933 page 2 Prussia's Eagle with Sword and Lightning Bolts _____ Kolberg. — President Minister Hermann Göring, Reich Chancellor Hitler's right-hand man, recently said at a meeting that Prussia's coat of arms should be changed. The current Prussian eagle with open talons should now hold a sword in one claw and lightning bolts in the other as a symbol of peace and a warning to enemies.

July 14, 1933 page 8 Memories on the Battle of Verdun _____ Mr. George Ranz of 215 Douglas St., who at the time of the World War still lived in the old homeland and was compelled to fight for his fatherland along with a million other men, was also at the Battle of Verdun on December 11, 1916 where he was seriously wounded by a granade fragment. And since he can never forget the War with all its horrors, on this day he involuntarily thinks back on the Battle of Verdun. A pain in his leg forced Mr. Ranz to go to Dr. Menzi in the Medical Arts Building and soon afterwards the doctor removed a granade fragment of considerable size from Mr. Ranz's lower leg, which he received on December 11, 1916 at the Battle of Verdun. Dr. Menzi had specific experience in the removal of granade fragments since he was in the Canadaian Army during the War and daily removed hundreds of these splinters. Mr. Ranz will surely keep this war memento forever as a souvenir.

July 14, 1933 page 8 — Buffalo will send Dr. Gustav Hitzel, Deputy Grand Bard of the German Order of the Harugari, and Samuel Rautenberg as delegates to the founding ceremony for the State Association. Furthermore Mr. Carl Dannhuser of the Buffalo Volksfreund will represent the press at the State Convention.

July 21, 1933 page 1 Hitler doesn't want any Namesakes Berlin. — At the request of Reich Chancellor Hitler, the Prussian Minister of the Interior has officially announced Hitler's wish that no newborn children should be named "Hitler," Hitlerit," or "Hitlerine" in his honor. Einstein's Motorboat Confiscated Berlin. — Professor Albert Einstein's motorboat, which placidly rested in the harbor near Einstein's property, was seized today by the police. They had been informed that the boat was supposed to be transported to Belgium. Battle against "Jewish World Capitalism" Berlin. — Reichstag representative Wilhelm Boerger stated at a workers assembly in the Sports Palace that Germany should fight "Jewish World Capitalism" for the entire world. "Jewish World Capitalism gives no work to those who don't want it. Germany fights for the entire world — for business life versus nomad existence; for the German community against international Jewery." 35,000 Political Prisoners in Germany Berlin. — Around 35,000 people, who are considered hostile to the Hitler government are, according to reliable estimates, currently in concentration camps. Semi-officially, it was brought to light that in Prussia alone the number of interned individuals reached 16,000.

July 21, 1933 page 2 Citizenship and Assets Revoked _____ Thousands of Germans become "Fatherlandless" by New Decree _____ Berlin. — Hitler's Cabinet has enacted a regulation, which empowers the German government to revoke the citizenship of "unwanted" German nationals inside and outside the country whom it deems "enemies of the people" and to confiscate their assets. When this legislation is carried out to its fullest potential, it gives National Socialist officials of Germany the strongest weapon ever forged for them and it would lead to conflict with the immigration laws of the United States and other countries. The regulation empowers the German Minister of the Interior, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, to demand the immediate return of Germans to Germany who live or travel abroad and whose activities arouse the displeasure of the Hitler government. If they do not heed the order to return, then their German citizenship can be revoked and their property can be declared abandonned. The legislation might be used against thousands of Germans, who have fled Germany. Then their only recourse would be to request a "Nansen Passport" from the League of Nations, which is issued to stateless individuals. Additionally in the Reich Cabinet meeting it was decided to recount the number of all Eastern Europeans who immigrated to Germany since the Revolution of 1918 and acquired citizenship then thoroughly establish which ethnicity and political affiliation they have. (It's estimated that during the postwar years 160,000 Eastern Jews migrated to Germany.) The lists being issued due to both these decrees should be completed as quickly as possible. The Cabinet session was unusually long. Before it ended it was learned from the Hitler newspaper, Der Angriff (The Attack,) that there would also be a ban on the establishment of new political parties in Germany. Actions contrary to this ban will be considered treasonous and correspondingly stringent punishment will be issued. In total there are 13 new regulations under consideration in the Reich Cabinet. One of the most significant among them deals with the lowering of the tax burden.

July 21, 1933 page 2 Great Discipline in the German Reich, says New York Banker _____ Vice-President Walter von Treskow of the Central Hanover National Bank in New York on his return from a five-week vacation trip to Germany said that what impressed him the most was the marvelous discipline of the German people. "Personally I didn't perceive the slightest sign of outrages against the Jews and all Germans, whom I asked about it and told about the rumors, had to admit to me that they had nothing to report. In reality responsible Germans stand resolutely behind Hitler, and in my opinion this is the overwhelmingly large majority of Germans. I believe that Hitler's first goal is the elevation of the German reputation abroad, and for that all Germans are grateful. Germany justifiably desires equal rights among other nations and Hitler seems to be the man to regain parity after so may failed endeavors. Whether all the planned measures to accomplish his goal is justified, whether his procedures against Jewish scientists and artists along with the entire Jewish financial system does more harm than good we cannot tell today, at least not foreigners who traveled in Germany and found that public life there is in marvelous order."

July 21, 1933 page 4 Mother of Rev. Scheding Dead _____ Rev. Wm. L. Scheding, Pastor of the Lutheran Mt. Tabor Church, received sad news yesterday stating that his 81-year-old mother in Berlin died. The death occurred on July 6th and she died in the home of her daughter. Our sympathies, Pastor.

July 21, 1933 page 8 Troy was not represented _____ On Sunday at the founding of the State Association in Syracuse our friend and colleague Jacob Birkmayer, business manager and lead editor of the Troy Free Press, was missing. In the meeting here in May he played a very important role in the preliminary work for the new establishment of a State Association. Baseless pessimism within German societal life in Troy made it impossible for Mr. Birkmayer to establish a local association, it seems to be the reason for his staying away now, as an article in the last issue of the Troy Free Press indicates and which we, since it will be of interest to all Germans, print here: Our "Good Luck Wish" on the founding of a German-American Association of the State of New York A truly baseless pessimism has apparently seized our German social groups in Troy, Albany, and Schenectady in the matter of the founding of a German-American Association of the State of New York and this is regretable. Enthusiasm for this new founding in our State is, based on our observations, embarassing — because not much will be achieved — so proclaimed many of our beloved fellow citizens. My many years of experience in German societal life and in the activities of all citizens of this country, perhaps called political duty, have taught me that we always accomplish something in this country not as individuals but through a medium — this is the means to gain power, exercise it, make it effective — this medium is called Organization. Back in the days of wartime rage, in to embrace Allies Patriotism, the German-American National Bund and its State associations moved aside because people feared them and because the delegates of the German-American National Bund in the western states hindered the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt in 1916 as a presidential candidate. That was the real reason for the dissolution — the 1917 Congress made docile by Roosevelt.* Those German-Americans, who are seriously concerned with the wellbeing of citizens of German blood in this country and who do not wear blinders and just look around they will see that the only way to carry weight is to assert ourselves. With the currently splintered German element, in which one side marches forward and the other side lags behind instead of using their power and advocating for the good of the entire race and their adopted fatherland — the clever politican is skilled in this art and uses this trick to play one side against the other. When the resolve of the collective replaces the will of the individual we become stronger. Therefore "Good Luck!" and my best wishes for the sucessful founding of an Association of Germans in the State of New York to benefit the German community and all of America. _____ [*Translator's Note: The first two of three obituaries for Theodore Roosevelt helps explain why German-Americans disliked him. See Roosevelt Obituaries-January 9, 1919]

July 28, 1933 page 1 For Spreading Lies _____ The Deutsche Zeitung (German Newspaper) was recently banned for three months because it maintained that the Italian Air Force Minister, General Italo Balbo, Commander of the Armada flown to the Chicago World Fair, was a converted Jew. The National Socialist Air Force Minister, Hermann Göring personally ordered the ban and the immediate evacuation of the responsible editor to a concentration camp. "The scandalous slander, which originated in Vienna, was intended to undermine German-Italian friendly relations," said an official declaration. It was further stated, "We will ruthlessly take action against newspapers, which could disrupt Germany's foreign relations." Chicago, Ill. — The local Italian Consulate General Castruccio stated the report that General Italoo Balbo is a converted Jew is "insane and nonsense." General Balbo is a pure-blooded Italian," he stated. For years Castruccio has been on friendly terms with the Italian Air Force Minister. "I am certain that he has never assumed the Jewish faith."

August 4, 1933 page 1 Bayreuth Festival, which Hitler attended, had great Appeal _____ Bayreuth. — German's colors and the National Socialist Swastika banners fluttered over the festival house, in all the streets of Bayreuth, and above the villa "Wahnfriend," where the Wagner family has its residence. This year's festival was opened in the presence of Hitler and countless other guests of honor with a magnicient performance of the "Meistersinger." The house was filled to capacity and when the Reich Chancellor entered he was greeted with a thunderous ovation and it did not spare enthusiastic applause for the artists, including a Jewish singer retained in the Bayreuth Artists Ensemble by Mrs. Winifred Wagner. Karl Elmendorf conducted the performance. The assumption that the opening performance would become a large National Socialist demonstation did not materialize. Hitler had given a speech prior to the opening stating that he in no way wished to be the center of attention during Festival Week. He would only come to Bayreuth as an admirer of Wagner and his work. He had a printed notice handed out to visitors as they entered the theater requesting they refrain from singing the Deutschlandlied (Germany Song) and the Horst Wessel song after the performance and refrain from fatherland demonstrations in the Festival House. A commemorative ceremony by the artists precedednel, members og the the performance at the grave of the maestro, his wife Cosima, and his son, Siegfriend. A choir performed "Der Glaube lebt; die Taube schwebt" (The faith's alive; the doves soar by) from "Parsifal." Mrs. Winifred Wagner, the wife of Siegfried Wagner and protector of the Bayreuth traditions, was visibly moved by the show of respect. Among the illustrious visitors were Vice-Chancellor von Papen; Reich Ministers Göring, Rust and Frick; plus high military personnel, members of the Bavarian State government, Prince August Wilhelm, former Crown Princess Cecilie, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and the Grand Duke of Hessen. Among the international guests Italians made up the majority; Americans were less represented, as can be expected with the uncertain financial situation of this country. Hitler and his co-workers also attended the Parsifal performance conducted by Richard Strauss. At the same time in Bayreuth a huge aviation conference began at which Reich Aviation Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring and Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Göbbels gave addresses.

August 4, 1933 page 1 Pastor expelled from the Hitler Party _____ Bielefeld. — Pastor Martin Niemöller, one of the co-workers of Pastor von Bodelschwingh, has been expelled from the National Socialist Party, to which he has belonged since 1926. The reason is that Niemöller joined a group of Westfalian pastors in a protest against the ways and means in which the German Christian [Party] brought politics into the church. Other signers of the protest may also soon be expelled. _____ Ludendorff Newspaper temporarily banned _____ Berlin. — The local secret police suspended General Erich Ludendorff's Volkswarte (People's Viewpoint) for three months without given a reason for it.

August 4, 1933 page 1 The Reich's Merchant Flag _____ Berlin. — Oncw again the German Merchant Flaf was altered and will remain "provisional pending final regulation." The new flag, which due to a decree by the Reich President, is the old prewar flag "for merchant ships previously commanded by former Marine Officers." It is the old black-whitepred flag with the Iron Cross on a white background with a double black border near the mast. There was no reason given for the change. One assumes that the Swastika on the old flag offended foreigners. _____ Big Raid in Germany _____ Berlin. — With surprising suddenness a new raid on all representatives of anti-government organization was begun recently. All train cars and automobiles were searched; special people, who were suspected of being Communist couriers and agents were arrested. From Landsberg came the report that three Communists, who had been arrested were killed because they had allegedly murdered a young National Socialist. They attempted to escape as they were supposedly being brought to prison. They were shot and killed. _____ Drastic Sterilization Law _____ Berlin. — On January 1, 1934 a recently introduced law will be put into effect, which aims at a decisive racial improvement. To this end the law provides for sterilization with, and in extreme cases without the consent of the individual. Provisions of the law will apply to people hereditarily burdened with epilepsy, deafness, feeble mindedness, blindness, chronic alcoholism, and mental illness. The full force of the law and control for the its enforcement lie in the hands of special healthcare authorities chosen for this purpose. _____ — During a game of cops and robbers being played by a group of boys in Oswego, 14-year-old Joseph Connolly died of hanging. He was the "criminal" and should hang — the joke was taken seriously and before the playmates knew it, the young boy was a corpse.

August 4, 1933 page 5 And So They beat the German Community to Death! _____ (Sent in) A few days ago there was a complaint that the German pastors had little interest for the German community. This is not the case. However there are reasons that it seems as though we pastors seldom involve ourselves in its affairs. What are the reasons? Don't they lie in the Germans themselves? There is the door wherein the accusation should be based. The German community and with it the German character and the language, are never preserved through organizations. It's always been the churches and their schools, which have accomplished this. I have been in many countries of the world and the German colonies, from Siberia to Central America, and throughout it all the preservation of the German community lies in the preservation of the German Church. And where this was the case, the German community survived. Where is was otherwise, the German community always went under. German schools and German newspapers dissappeared with the German Church and all that remained were painful memories of the old times. Here at home we have leaders of the German community. Where do we find them? Are they active in the preservation of the German church? No, or only slightly! Shall we think back on the war years, which annihilated the German community and the German conscience? Where were our organizations? Where were our leaders? What remained were the German pastors who stood tall and had to spoon out the soup. I can cite examples where people punished the pastors yet not a hand belonging to our leaders was raised. They were not there. People left the German Church and the German pastors in a lurch. People only had need for the Church when it came to the restoration of a German community, which once again left in a fix. The German community was not preserved with a host of organizations. Many of our Germans have grown away from the Church and the German churches — to the overall detriment of the German community. I hear people speak about the church and religion and how they have grown away from both of them, and it's mostly been malicious talk that hasn't been reflected upon and thought out. I bestow my respect upon the Catholic Central Association because it understood how to be a strong support to the German community and it is a support because is works in close association with the church and not against it! What do people have against the church, the German Church? There's more to the German community than the preservation of the language. German character is deep and introspective. Without religion and the church there could be no German community. We see that at this time in Germany, where the slogan is return to church as one of the most important parts of the German community. No German pastor has anything against a drink to honor; in a drink to honor he sees a gift from God, but when it's made the main issue of the German community, as it was before the war, then it's the final hour for the German community in this country. During my far-reaching work I came across a good piece of evidence, one of many, in Mexico City, Mexico. There are around 1000 Germans in Mexico City who rally around the German churches and their schools. They comprise the local German community, thinking individuals who have lived for years in a foreign land and want to preserve their community for themselves and their children. The German envoy told me, "We have in total around 50,000 Germans in Mexico, who only complain and whose German nature consists only of talking and doing nothing of honor for the German community!" Everyone knows the reason. German character, I say again, consistes of something highter, a consciousness that the German nature is more deeply religious and even churchless Germans maintain that. An example came to me a few years ago. A young, educated German visited me one day. He was a stranger here. It happened that a German woman came into the parish house and very soon after the young man was conversing with her. I listened. Within 10 minutes this local woman suggested to the young man that he immediately join a German association. The young man was embarrassed. Finally I asked the woman, "Couldn't you have just as eagerly asked the young man to join a church? The young man's mother would be grateful to you if you had recommended a church to her son. You would have earned a heavenly reward for yourself, the young man, and his mother." The woman fell silent. It is a fact that we German pastors always think of that whenever an immigrant wants to move from a church to an association. He not only loses the church but in time the association and thus the German community. In Syracuse we have approximately 4000 citizens, who were born in Germany. Subtracting the Catholic citizens we find in the German congregations count for no more than 15 percent of the German citizens of who no more than 20 percent are Protestant Germans. The other 80 percent are perhaps in the various association, but certainly not in the German church congregations. Will we ba capable of perserving our German community? — How many readers does our German newspaper have? Are their fates firmly connected with the German churches? Doesn't the German poet [Emanuel Geibel] say, "German character shall heal the world"? Without German churches and schools the German community will be beaten to death. It will be cold and dead! — and so many Germans will be guilty! This is a wake-up call for German Day. Let's all participate, but don't forget that German Day should be nothing other than a reawakening of the German community to self-awareness, truth, loyalty and trust in God!                                           Rev. Scheding. _____ *[Translator's Note: From the last of 7 stanzas of Emanuel Geibel's poem "Deutschlands Beruf" (Germany's Vocation) written in 1861: Power and Freedom, Justice and Tradition Spiritual Clarity and Decisive Action, Reining into a Stronger Center Selfish Motives driven away. And may German Essence Heal the World Some Day.

August 4, 1933 page 8 Sterilization Law in Place in the Reich _____ It's Hitler's Ideal — More and Better Babies _____ A strict, wide-reaching sterilization law was enacted last Wednesday in Germany. Its stipulations have been published in the official government organ Monitor. Voluntary and compulsory sterilization will be performed on people, who in the light of science are deemed physically and mentally deficient. Doctors must identify patients they are treating for physical and mental defects. Those subject to sterilization are afflicted with the following infirmities: hereditary dementia, insanity, madness, epilepsy, St. Vitus Dance (Huntington's Disease,) blindness, deafness, delirium tremens, lameness and schizophrenia. A final category includes acute melancholia, persecution complex, and people in whom an idée fixe has developed. The law will make no gender distinction. There's provision for individuals afflicted with one of the above listed infirmities to request the operation or for the guardian of a minor to request the procedure through a police doctor or the director of a hospital or asylum for the insane or a similar institution. The determination in this case is left to an expert "heredity court," but an appellate court has the final word. This law came about only after extensive consultations of the members of government. Hitler's ideal was more and better children. In order to encourage people thinking of marriage a decree was enacted so girls in a position to marry and wanting to do so can borrow money from the government. A percentage of the loan will be deducted for each child born.

August 11, 1933 page 6 Measures against Café Deadbeats _____ The café owners in Paris have recently declared war on visitors who order a cup of coffee for 50 Centimes and then sit for hours in the best spots to marvel at the pictures being painted on the boulevard. The Association of Café and Restaurant Owners maintains their patrons are harming their businesses so much that something just has to be done. The worst deadbeats are allegedly the students. From now on guests will receive a "time card" at the same time as their drinks on which the time will be marked when they sat down. The amount of time the patron is alloted is as follows: With a glass of wine or beer, 15 minutes; with a coffee, 20 minutes; with an aperitif, 30 minutes; the same amount for a liqueur; and a coffee with liqueur, 35 minutes. If the guest orders champagne, he can stay as long as he likes.

August 11, 1933 page 8 America Commemorates German Pioneers For Freedom of the Press _____ (From the New Jersey Freie Zeitung, Newark, N.J.) It's up to Americans to remember a man to whom the United States owes thanks for giving legal force to a civil right, which along with the freedom to assemble and freedom of speech belongs as a cornerstone of democracy — freedom of the press. And indeed the name of this man must be as familiar to all German-Americans as the names Schurz and Sigel, Pastorius, and Steuben. Johann Peter Zenger, who more than two hundred years ago — four decades before the thirteen original colonies dared to shake off England's yoke — was a German who used his own fist in the battle for America's liberty. Who else recognizes or remembers his name? There's no mention of it in the school histories. The political impotence of the German-American community, which instead of dealing with it on its own has become a group of witless camp followers and devotees of every other political party and forgotten the name of the simple German typesetter who was the champion of American civil rights and political freedom in the New World. And Steuben Associations, Carl Schurz Foundations, the Oberländer Foundation and all other institutions, which are supposed to be the protectors of the cultural and political well being of German Americans, have forgotten him completely along with the majority of the German-American Press. In him we should honor his power, boldness, deep conviction, and honorable intentions without which the Press and Freedom of the Press would not have been considered. A small contingent of Americans — newspaper people and journalists — have made it their task to remember Zenger. With justifiable pride of vocation they plan a celebration in New York in the Fall of this year to honor this man, who rightfully along with Benjamin Franklin deserves to be called "Father of the American Press." Our readers can find an article on Zenger's life and work in this newspaper under the title "Peter Zenger stood 200 years ago before the New York Court."

August 18, 1933 page 1 New York Language Association disassociates from Berlin _____ New York, N.Y. — The local "German Language Association, New York Branch" which was founded about two years ago or actually reestablished since it existed until the war at which time it was dissolved, has disassociated itself from the mother association in Berlin and restructured as an independent entity called the "German Language Association of New York." The dissolution from the mother association, the German Language Association in Berlin, as Committee member Gerhard Schade explained, is because the New York association no longer in agreement with wishes coming from Berlin. Despite the name change and the change-over of statutes with regard to the relationship with the Berlin association, it is in no way the intention of the association to dissolve the relationships with the large language association in the Reich. Things will remain the same with regard to cooperative tasks which remain feasibly and permittably in accord with American dictates. The German Language Association, whose chairman, Fritz Weinmann is of the Jewish faith, sets the ultimate goal in the statutes as "serving the fatherland and bringing all Germans without distinction to ancestry or status, to the realization that work on the German language means work towards the German community and the German future." The New York Association has also unequivocally placed itself behind this endeavor of the mother association to regulate the formation of an official German language, for which the Hitler government strives. The power of law should control the usage of language in all forms of oral and written expression. Weinmann has repeatedly emphasized orally and in writing that the New York Association can and will support linguistic efforts by the Reich yet cannot align itself behind the racial purity tendencies. He is convinced that people in the Reich, that is, in the Berlin Language Association, may have taken offense to the liberal American opinion even though it might not have been expressed by the Reich.

August 18, 1933 page 4 No German Reich Politics in the U.S. _____ "So many people believe they are doing a service to themselves and the old fatherland when they conduct German Reich or foreign party politics. No one is served by this and even the fatherland is poorly served. I dare to assert that an American of German blood perjures himself when he conducts other politics than those of this country, and a German who is not yet a citizen of this country goes beyond the hospitality this country extends to him. If we want to demonstrate our ethnic worthiness then it is our duty to cherish the culture of our country and show the world we stand shoulder to shoulder to acquire our rights. And we can only do this if we fulfill our duties as citizens of this country and do not stand against it. "I would consider it ungrateful if we were to misuse the hospitality and liberties granted by this homeland and attempt to spread party politics which do not belong in this country..." These words were spoken on German Day in Newark, N.J. by John C. Körber, the President of the Newark German-American Association.

August 18, 1933 page 5 What Now? _____ (Sent In) First an answer to the question, who is Colonel Edwin Emerson, who delivered a festival speech on German Day? Colonel Emerson was born in Dresden, Germany as the son of an American diplomat. He spent his childhood years in Germany, where his father filled many diplomatic posts for the United States. Colonel Emerson studied at Cornell and Princeton University, where his father was a Professor of English Literature before he was called by President Adams to diplomatic service. After his studies in America Emerson was a student in Munich for a few years and then became secretary for the American Ambassador in Berlin. When the Spanish-American War broke out we find Emerson as an officer under Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, where he advanced to become adjutant of Division Generals. Emerson also served under General Smedley Butler with the Marine Corps in Nicaragua. Soon after he became a war correspondent in South America and later in Germany, where spent years with the German Army and the Germany Army in Turkey. In Bersheba the English flight bombers got too close and pushed the Army with Emerson back to Beirut. We all know that Colonel Emerson spent a period of time as a commandant of a prisoner of war camp on the State Exhibition Grounds. Emerson wrote an entire series of books, among them Vier Jahre mit der Deutschen Armee (Four Years with the German Army,) which was suppressed by Wilson. In every library in the country we find Emerson's books, such as the History of the 19th Century in 3 volumes. His son, Sidney Brooks Emerson, who worked with Father Ed. Walsh from Georgeton University and those of us in Russia in Famine Relief, has written his first book, which paved the way for better understanding after the War. The book is titled America and Germany. [Translator's Note: An online selection of Emerson's writings can be found at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Emerson%2C%20Edwin%2C%201869%2D1959. The University at Tübingen has digitized Emerson's Mit den deutschen Heeren : Kriegsberichte eines Amerikaners 1914-15 (With the German Armies : War Reports of an American 1914-15). Available only in German.] We German Day people in Syracuse should be thankful to have had a festival speaker who is an American of Irish blood, and who is famous here and over there not just for his diplomatic service but also his military service. Colonel Emerson is President of the Association of Friends of Germany, whose goal is to create better understanding between the old fatherland and America in the way in which Colonel Emerson has become a friend of the German people. Years of youth spent in Germany are never swept away, so this association sends its American children to Germany for a short period of time to give them a lifelong impression of German nature and character. Colonel Emerson has nothing to do with the "Verein des Neuen Deutschlands" (Association of New Germany) and good people should make sure that before they jump into the water they check to see if it is water or thick ink. In this instance those who ask the question "Who is Colonel Emerson" are basically thrown into the thick ink.* [* Not sure if Pastor Scheding was referring to rumors of Emerson's political agenda, but four months later an article was published concerning it. See The Jewish Telegraphic Agency article of December 3, 1933 for "Colonel Edwin Emerson Denies He is Official Spokesman for the Nazi Party in America."] What Now? German Day is over. It has wrapped a firmer band around everything which refers to German nature, German character, German loyalty, German piety. Politics, religious and racial distinctions were set aside and we will hope that we can find common ground for all time. The church is part of German essence, be it Protestant, Catholic or Jewish. A German man with German sensibilites is always a man in whom the fear of God and the church assume an important place. It was the churchless and godless element in the old fatherland which helped to bring misery to Germany. Let the same thing not be said of us as if we had through religious apathy escorted the German community here in America into desolation.                                                                         — W.L. Scheding.

August 18, 1933 Mass Demonstration on German Day in the City of the World Fair _____ The German Day celebration held in Chicago at the World Fair included a mass demonstration in numbers never seen before. 30,000 Germans cheered George Seibel, the eloquent leader of the American Gymnastics Society, as he explained the meaning behind the celebration in a translated speech which extolled the role of America's German community in the fight for liberal ideals and a effective potshot against the oppressive regines in many countries in which reason and neighborly love may have resigned in the face of theatrical dictators. One of the participants in the festival demonstration suggested a resolution, which was unanimously accepted, calling for the rejection of all forms of racial and religious hatred as unamerican. Fifteen show wagons from German associations, the American military, and thousands of people participated in the preceding parade.

August 25, 1933 page 1 Even Ebert's Son-in-Law _____ Was Interned in a Concentration Camp Berlin. — Doctor Wilhelm Jaenecke, the son-in-law of Friedrich Ebert, the First President of the German Republic and former government president, was arrested in Göttingen and immediately transported to a concentration camp. Dr. Jaenecke's internment came a few days before the internment of Friedrich Ebert Jr., son of the first president, to a concentration camp in Oranienburg. In both cases no explanation was given for the government's action. It seems someone thought it was wise to put all people in prison who were linked with the First President either politically or through family ties. Former Reichstag President Paul Löbe and another previously known Socialist, former Prussian President Lüdemann, were transported from Breslau Holding Center to the concentration camp in Osnabruck along with 340 other holding center inmates, who allegedly were being moved for work service in the planned drainage of marshland. The Breslau Holding Center is being closed as a financial savings measure. The total assets of Vorwärts, the former leading periodical of the German Social Democratic Party and its affiliated organizations, were declared forfeit to the Prussian State. The confiscation was based on a law which states property can be confiscated "which serves hostile purposes against the state or the nation." Denunciation for Associating with Jews. Berlin. — The full names of aryan girls, who in the future are seen at excursions in the company of members of the Jewish race will, according to a report from Kassell, be published in the Hessische Volkswacht (Hessian People's Watch.) From Straubling comes the report that Israelites were hindered from bathing in the Danube.

August 25, 1933 page 2 "Doctors of German and Foreign Races" _____ Berlin. — Because of a new government regulation, German doctors have been divided into "German and foreign races" and they are forbidden to consult one another or swap cases. The regulation, which was enacted by Medical Commissioner Wagner, forbids German doctors from conferring on cases of non-aryans or to treat cases which are referred to them by non-aryans. They are also forbidden from consulting with non-aryans.

August 25, 1933 page 3 Hero's Death of a French War Pilot Explained _____ The death of the famous World War French pilot, Captain Georges Guynemer, who in somewhat over 2 years brought down 53 German aircraft, was until now covered in secrecy. He disappeared during a reconnaissance flight on September 11, 1917. Many attempts were made to learn details and during the War King Alfons of Spain gathered reports through the German Foreign Office, however no clearer information was ascertained. Now it's reported from Paris that 16 years after his disappearance, Guynamer's identification tag have been handed over to the French company, Farman Aviation Works. The donor is Dr. Knauss of German Lufthansa, who communicated that he received the tag by accident from a former German war pilot. According to his information the French aviation hero was shot down by a German aircraft north of Ypres and crashed into a region held by a German outpost, however the place was so heavily bombed by the English that they had to withdraw from it. Later the region was reoccupied and during that occasion the tag was found. Guynemer is the only wartime pilot given the honor of having his name magnificently inscribed in the Parisan Pantheon. He was celebrated as a "legendary hero, who at the height of his fame crashed down from the sky."

August 25, 1933 page 4 By God's Grace _____ Last Sunday Adolf Hitler allowed himself to be described by the representatives of both confessions as a man sent by God. In Berlin there was an assembly of Catholic youth. Vicar General Steinmann gave a speech there and said, "Our Chancellor was chosen by God. There can be no antagonism between the Church and the State. The future empire embraces both. Our Catholic youth will help the fatherland to once again become grand and glorious." On the same day in Eisleben the 450th anniversary celebration of Martin Luther's birth took place. There newly appointed Bishop Ludwig Müller spoke. He referred to the German Chancellor as a man chosen by God, under whom the German people will fulfill their great historical mission. After the past experiences which the German people have had with their leaders chosen "by God's grace," one should scarcely think it's credible they would fall for such nonsense, but that seems to be the case. The deepest dispair is the only possible explanation for clutching at straws.

August 25, 1933 page 8 No Cameras in German Aircraft _____ Berlin. — The Air Travel Ministry has enacted a law whereby passengers must surrender their photographic equipment during their flight over German territory in order to hinder photography in the air.

September 1, 1933 page 1 Protest against the English Edition of Adolf Hitler's Book _____ Mew York, N.Y. — The local American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune, an English-language weekly periodical, has an article by Louis Rittenberg in which the Houghton Mifflin Company was sharply criticized for its intention to bring out an English edition of Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, to market. There was a long series of letters by the periodical directed at the book publisher and a lead article was posted in which the publication of the book in the United States was called a "threat," however the publisher was not influenced by it. In a new article the Houghton Mifflin Company was indicted for wanting to "capitalize on the misery and the catastrophe of a significant section of humanity" and "support Hitler propaganda in this country, where people are trying to raise private funds of $5,000,000 in order to find legal support in America." In the same edition a lead article appears in which it is stated that in the event the publisher really does bring out the book, it would do well to print the text in red "as a symbol of the blood shed in the Third Reich by Nazi murderers," and the title page should be bordered in black as a sign of the "death sentence this obsessed deagogue has placed on civilization." Finally a public letter was issued by the publisher of the Jewish Tribune, David A. Brown, in which protest was raised against the publication of the book for "insult and slander of the Jewish people" and called upon Jews and Christians to turn their backs towards the publisher and all book handlers in order to protest against its marketing.

September 1, 1933 page 1 Sentenced to Two Years in Prison _____ Berlin. — A naturalized American citizen and former member of the New York Fire Department was recently sentenced to two years in prison and eventual deportation because he had a letter in his possession which deals with the Jewish question in Germany in a derogatory manner. The convicted man is 60 year old Harry Diamond. He will be deported within 6 months after he serves his sentence.

September 1, 1933 page 2 German Identity Card Professors _____ A new kind of professor will arrive in New York within a short time. One may call them German Identity Card Professors, as contrasted with the well-known foreign exchange professors. These are teachers and professors expelled from German universities by the Nazi government, who intend to begin anew at a New York university. There are many excellent teachers among them, such as Emil Lederer of the University of Berlin and Arthur Feller of the University of Königsberg.

September 1, 1933 page 4 Untermyer Predicts Hitler's End _____ Youngstown, Ohio. — In a speech given at the annual meeting of the lodges of the Order of B'nai B'rith, Samuel Untermyer predicted the dissolution of the Hitler government within the next 6 to 12 months. Untermyer referred to Hitler's supporters as "monsters in human form" and based his prophecy on the support for the advertised boycott of German wares, ships and businesses by the Jews of all countries. Untermyer further explained that this movement would be a very effective blow to the Hitler regime and a support to the Jews in Germany as they were recently laid out at the Prague Zionist Congress.* In relation to this he demanded that the Zionist organization refuse to deal with any negotiations for the unhampered migration of all German Jews to Palastine and sharply criticized Dr. Stephen S. Wise for his position. Around 10,000 Jews from northest Ohio, west Pennsylvania and West Virginia attended the lodge conference. _____ *Resolutions of the 18th Zionist Congress

September 1, 1933 page 4 — German women have rebelled against the Nazi fashion edict and do not want men specifying what they can and cannot wear. Hitler, who is still a bachelor, will soon find out that men will not go far with such women.

September 15, 1933 page 1 "Hitler will fall" _____ London. — Professor Albert Einstein stated that Germany finds itself in a state of "barbaric hysteria" and that the Hitler regime will perish due to its own stupidity.

September 15, 1933 page 1 Woman Renders a Bandit Harmless _____ Meade, Kansas. — Mrs. Anson Horning, the wife of a teacher and mother of two children, knows well how to use a croquet mallet as a weapon. She proved this to a bandit who gave his name as D.E. Potter of Cincinnati but was in reality George Kelley, a notorious criminal and accomplice of Bailey's. The man made an attempt to steal Horning's auto. While her husband and a friend struggled with the thief, she gave him such a blow over the head with the mallet that he surrendered. He's currently in the local county jail. ____ A fuller and more accurate account of the event can be seen at Gunman Taken by Croquet Players

September 15, 1933 page 1 Germany's Alleged Readiness for War _____ Alarming Article in French Newspaper Strassburg. — A recent article, which guarantees that Germany will be ready for a war on land and in the sky within half a year, appeared in the Strassburg newspaper Dernieres Nouveles. The article states that German industry has been working since May 1st at full capacity and is in a position to manufacture enough poison gas in six months; necessary explosives, guns and machine guns in three months; and heavy artillery within ten months. The articles goes on to say that Germny could begin a war by air even sooner since factories are already established for rapid production and commercial aircraft can be changed for military use. The newspaper further states that the German aviation network has been thoroughly developed based on commercial needs for strategic mapping of roads, bridges and railways and can be used for troop movements. The demilitarization of the Rhineland has become null and void, the article continues, since Prussian troops have been replaced by much stronger forces of Nazi Storm Troopers and other Hitler organizations. Furthermore the import of copper, cotton, and rubber has increased so much in the first half of the year that they are available for wartime necessities. The newspaper adds that the entire army could be set in motion within four months. "Germany has an incalculable head start beyond all other military forces because it has no outdated war materielle," the article further states. "Everything which Germany produces today in weaponry is based on the best and latest data accumulated by other military powers and it may be that the quality of the weaponry is better than the old military establishments. That goes especially for flight service.

September 15, 1933 page 4 Christian Peil is no more. _____ With great sorrow we must announce the death of Mr. Christian Peil, the editor pf the Syracuse Union from 1912 to 1922 with a break of one year. Seeming in the best of health, the now pale man complained of an internal pain last Tuesday. He consulted a physician, who brought him immediately to the hospital and scheduled an operation, which was performed in the Crouse-Irving Hospital and at first seemed to go well. Then a setback occurred and he died Thursday morning at 1:30 AM. Just last Monday he visited the Union office to pay a sick call on the newspaper publisher, who has been under doctor care since last month. It was a amicable and heartening visit. Instead of giving advice on what to do and what to take, Mr. Peil left the office briefly and returned with a bottle of pure, distilled water and requested the patient drink it in place of the ordinary city water. And the water helped. The last thing Mr. Peil said to us as he left was, "Goodbye, and feel better. I'll come back on Wednesday." And why he didn't return is clearly apparent. May the spirit of Mr. Peil live on forever. Mr. Peil was a true German. No German event occurred in Syracuse over the last twenty years in which he had not participated. He was a Syracuse delegate to the grand German Peace Conference in Chicago in 1915, where the main speaker was William J. Bryan, the great leader of the Democrats. Furthermore Mr. Peil was a philosopher with poetic ideals and fine mathematician. One of the greatest pleasures in his life was a visit with the great wizard, the late Mr. Steinmetz, to his home in Schenectady carrying a letter of recommendation from the Syracuse Union. As Mr. Peil later related to friends, he only sat for a short amount of time with Mr. Steinmetz when a new spirit came over them and the two felt like long lost brothers. Although it was Sunday morning, Steinmetz invited Mr. Peil to a visit in the enormous General Electric factory, which was a mile away. Instead of driving in a car the famous Steinmetz preferred to run — and such wisdom and philosophy poured out of him as he spoke — that Mr. Peil equated the long distance and the hour long stay in the factory as but a mere minute. Steinmetz showed his guest various experiments and explained the degrees of difficulty involved with each of them with his new found friend, and as they left Mr. Steinmetz assured that in a few months he would come to Syracuse and spend a pleasant evening in the Arion Song Hall, where true German spirit and hospitality prevailed. The great Steinmetz was called away to the other side before he could fulfill his promise. Christian Peil had a very religious nature although to many he looked like an atheist. He called himself a "free thinker." His religious nature is demonstrated in the "Testament of a Free Thinker," which he wrote himself: Believe in God as the epitome of creation because human understanding is insufficeint to solve the mysterious event of creation itself. Believe in Him because in Him lies the source of all being, power, and well-being. Have love for humanity if you wish to expect love from others! Respect every faith which comes from an honorable heart and as long as it brings happiness to he who professes it! This course of action guarantees one a position which gives you power over small quarrels and is designed to clear the way to mutual understanding. On any occasion place yourself on the side of the innocent people who are persecuted and oppressed, because it will give you an inner feeling of justice and help advance the course of progress. In following these admonitions seek the benefits in your journey on this earth and leave it to fate after your dissolution to continue what you called to life!

September 15, 1933 page 4 Peil. — Christian Peil, former editor of the Syracuse Union and since last year employed as a clerk in the City Water Department, died around 1:30 AM Thursday morning at Crouse-Irving Hospital after a brief illness. He was born on August 21, 1865 in Fuskenheim, Rhine Palatinate, Germany and came to America 49 years ago and 37 years ago to Syracuse. He was President of the German Pioneer and Women's Society; a loyal member of the Arion Singing Society, in which he held many offices; and the Syracuse Gymnastics Society. He leaves behind three sons, Christian Jr, Arthur, and Hermann Peil; two daughters, Mrs. Carl Hall and Mrs. John J. Moynihan; six grandchildren and a brother, Jakob Peil in Fuskenheim, Germany. A funeral service follows on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Welter's Funeral Home then burial at Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. Wm. Bauer presiding. Mr. Henry Mirbach Sr., President of the Arion, will deliver the eulogy during the funeral ceremony.

September 15, 1933 page 7 — The Prudent Man. One time in Vienna composer Millöcker met a colleague on the street, who invited him to his house that evening. "Come tonight to our house. It will be very pleasant. First my wife will sing something with accompaniment by my daughter at the piano. Then we'll eat around 9 PM." "Thank you very much!" Millöcker responded. "I'll be there promptly at 9!" — Shaw must know about it. A careful father comes to Bernhard Shaw and asks for advice. "I have a very gifted son," the father said. "The young man has just as much talent as a writer as he does a painter. That makes my decision quite difficult. What should I let him become?" "Let him become a writer," Shaw responded with a smile. "Why is that?" "Paper is much cheaper than canvas!"

September 15, 1933 page 8 Prof. Einstein on the Nazi "Death List" _____ It's reported in London that the German Nazi Organization "Fehme" has placed famous scholar Professor Albert Einstein on its "Death List," offering a reward of $4,555 to anyone expediting the Professor's departure to the next realm of existence. Professor Einstein lives with his wife near Blankenberge, Belgium and they are being carefully guarded. When she anxiously told him about the report of his impending doom he responded, "We have no need to be afraid of danger!"

September 22, 1933 page 1 Dollfuss as Dictator in accordance with Mussolini's Model _____ Federal Chancellor announces a new Era for Austria — All the World astonished by his Plans — Will take the Wind out of Hitler's Sails — Peace with Austrian Nazis in the Realm of Possibilities. Vienna. — Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss recently astonished the entire world by his declaration that the Parliamentary government in Austria has reached its end. At the same time he indicated that he intends to create a dictatorship according to the Italian model. At an open air speech during a demonstration by the Fatherland Front, the not-quite five-feet tall Federal Chancellor stated amid wild cheering, "Parliamentarianism in Austria is dead, finished since March , never to return. I will not enumerate all the weaknesses which lie in our Parliament and our so-called democracy. The Parliament turned itself off and destroyed itself through formalism and demagoguery. Such a Parliament, such a corporate body representing the people, cannot and will not be tolerated any more!" "While we were fighting to put down Socialism and Marxism, a movement came about under the flag of Nationalism (National Socialism) which came at us from behind and forced the government to fight on two fronts." Thousands, who came from all parts of Austria, pressed into the Vienna Race Grounds and filled every available seat to hear the Federal Chancellor's future plans in the fight against the Nazis. Alert observers learned of the Austrian Chancellor's intentions to take the wind out of Adolf Hitler's sails by establishing a dictatorship according to Mussolini's model. In it one sees a compromise with the Austrian Nazis, who currently are outlawed and banned. For the first time the Heimwehr (Home Guard) took part in the same demonstration as the Fatherland Front. It was also made known that Dollfuss is prepared to install a fascist government. Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, the leader of the Austrian Home Guard, stated just last week after a visit to Italy that Austria must become fascist in accordance with the Mussolini's guidelines rather than according to Hitler's principles. "Liberalism followed Marxism," Dollfuss said in his speech. "Both are materialistic. We currently stand at the threshold of a new era. The time of liberal capitalism is over, just as is the time of self-seeking, materialistic Marxism. In Austria there is no place for terroristic political absorption." This last comment was apparently directed to the address of the German Nazis. Then he continued. "In Austria we want to be as much Christian as German. We have often emphasized that we want friendship with Germany; but this friendship must be honest and honorable, otherwise it is useless. We demand freedom in our own house." The Chancellor spoke further of a "corporate social ordering" of the new era, which he will introduce apparently by this he understood a system of nation-wide corporatism.

September 22, 1933 page 1 Count Luckner wants to bring Clarity _____ Dresden. — Count Felix von Luckner plans to return to the United States and conduct lectures on the Hitler government's fight against Communism. Lucker declared at a meeting here that the United States is also threatened by Communism and that he wishes to bring the American people information on the National Socialist Movement's victory over it. Berlin. — Walter Scholz of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry stated today that in the future German girls, who are seen in the streets with Jews, will receive a sound thrashing.

September 22, 1933 page 2 — The Clever Young Lady. Ellen:"You seem to have drawn Freddie's attention. Why don't you marry him?" Margot: "Because I like the attention!" — The Grandmother. Old Man: "Why are you crying, little boy? Are you lost?" Little Boy:"Yes, and it serves me right. I don't know why I went out with Grandma. She always loses something." — Absent Minded. The Professor complained: "I never find my hat in the right place. I just want to know, in what blasted spot will I find it today!" The Professor's Wife: "It's on your head!"

September 22, 1933 page 7 Rev. Snyder has Words of Praise for Germany _____ Last Sunday Rev. R.E. Snyder held his first sermon in his church, the Westminster Church, upon returning from Germany and other European countries. On this occasion he had many words of praise for the new Germany. He compared the current international relationships with a picture puzzle, whose solution requires the efforts of the NRA (National Recovery Administration.) He added that this movement needs the enthusiasm of the new Germany if it is to have success. "Germany," he stated, "has the voice of a masterful and great leader, who has been saying for twelve years 'German, wake up!.' Now it has awakened. He has called his sons and daughters together and given them the task to rescue their fatherland from the hands of liars and enemies. Unarmed and surrounded by steel rings, which one can never hope to break ... it brought forth great unrest among the people, who this year were busy crushing the German population under their iron heels while at the same time putting their own armies in a position for conquering after a decade of liberty." At the beginning of his sermon Pastor Snyder said that many things have been written about Hitler and that America has been the victim of dreadful propaganda since the World War. — He took the liberty to speak his own mind just as the propagandists have done, even if his own opinion is not influenced by financial gain while propaganda is the result of payments. Rev. Snyder will give a lecture at Redeemer Church on Germany's new Protestant State Church on Sunday evening, October 1st.                                                                                                             Utica Deutsche Zeitung

September 29, 1933 page 1 Poland and Danzig reach an Agreement _____ Warsaw, Poland. — The governments of Poland and the Free City of Danzig have signed an agreement, which grants the harbor at Danzig and the harbor at Gdynia equal treatment on the principle of free trade competition. _____ German Embassy Chancellor for Washington _____ Dublin, Iteland. — The transfer of the Chancellor of the local German Legation, Franz Schultz, to head a similar position at the German Embassy in Washington has just been announced. He will sail to the United States in the near future. _____ Nazi Regime takes over Censorship of Advertising _____ Berlin, September 27th. — Under a new law German department stores and other businesses which place public advertisements may not publish them until they are approved by the Propaganda Ministry. Additionally there will be a fee which must be paid to the government for advertisements. This new law, which will regulate all Germany's advertising, is approved by the Cabinet. The government pursued the idea that consumers should be protected from deceptive advertising through legislation. The government expects a substantial income from the fee, which will be turned over to the Propaganda Ministry for various purposes.

September 29, 1933 page 8 True French Impudence _____ Parisian Newspaper demands Delay of Saar Evacuation until 1938 Paris. — The Petit Parisien published an investigation over the last few days concerning the Saar Region, which indicates its viewpoint with the heading "The Hitler Terror in the Saar Region." But even more interesting than the entire investigation is the conclusion in which the newspaper proposes nothing other than a modification of a popular vote in the region. According to the Versailles Treaty the control over the Saar population is either supposed to be turned over to Germany in 1935, be retained under the "status quo", or be annexed to France. However now the Petit Parisien wants an intermediate solution whereby the status quo is retained for another five years. If the vote, for example, were to adhere to the current status only for a period of five years, all signs would indicate that the majority voted for the extention and the interim government could, even by doing nothing, make it possible to wait out future development in the Saar Region peacefully.